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Lot 310 · Ceramics · H 10.5 cm酒器・茶器
PAIR OF BEER TUMBLERS (BIAMAGU) “SAKUZAN”
Designer kiln “Sakuzan” (Sakuzan), Mino ceramics. 21st century, potter's wheel, relief, matte ash glaze.
Estimate
8 000 – 12 000 ₽
- Set or pair
- Dimensions
height of tumbler — 10.5 cm.
- Description
A pair of collector's beer tumblers (biamaguBiamagu ビアマグ — a traditional Japanese tall beer tumbler (beer mug). Pieces in unglazed ceramics (for example, Bizen) are highly valued for their ability to hold a dense, lasting head.) in a strict, contemporary wabi-sabiWabi-sabi 侘寂 — a key Japanese aesthetic concept that prescribes valuing true beauty in its transience, incompleteness and noble imperfection (asymmetry, traces of time, roughness of texture). style. The pieces are thrown on the potter's wheel with an expressive ring-shaped relief on the body. The surface is covered with a matte ash-white glaze and decorated with rhythmic vertical iron-brown stripes. The unglazed terracotta base underlines the natural, warm texture of the material.
- Marks
The base of each glass bears a clear impressed maker's mark: “Sakuzan” (作山).